Writers and Writing Quotes

147 quotations about Writers and Writing
To write is a humiliation.
Edward Dahlberg · Writers and Writing
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
Edward Dahlberg · Writers and Writing
The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
Richard Harding Davis · Writers and Writing
Writing isn't hard. It isn't any harder than ditch-digging.
Patrick Dennis · Writers and Writing
Writers are always selling somebody out.
Joan Didion · Writers and Writing
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
E. L. Doctorow · Writers and Writing
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
J. P. Donleavy · Writers and Writing
Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.
Carl Van Doren · Writers and Writing
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
Wayne Dyer · Writers and Writing
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
George Eliot · Writers and Writing
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
T. S. Eliot · Writers and Writing
Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.
Lucy Ellman · Writers and Writing
If you wish to be a writer; write!
Epictetus · Writers and Writing
Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
Clifton Fadiman · Writers and Writing
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
William Faulkner · Writers and Writing
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
William Faulkner · Writers and Writing
Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
Edna Ferber · Writers and Writing
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
Edward M. Forster · Writers and Writing
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin · Writers and Writing
Our work is to present things that are as they are.
(Frederick II) Frederick The Great · Writers and Writing
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
Sigmund Freud · Writers and Writing
The walls are the publishers of the poor.
Eduardo Galeano · Writers and Writing
If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe · Writers and Writing
Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe · Writers and Writing
He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe · Writers and Writing

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Margaret Anderson Isaac Asimov Richard Bach Walter Bagehot James Baldwin Saul Bellow Robert Benchley Arnold Bennett Thomas Berger Nicholas Boileau Christian Nevell Bovee Catherine Drinker Bowen Anita Brookner Robert Browning Jean De La Bruyere Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Truman Capote Thomas Carlyle Charles Churchill Jackie Collins